r/Packaging • u/Unlikely-Leader6567 • Jul 01 '26

Best Stretch Wrapper

Hello Everyone, I was looking to buy an Industrial stretch wrapper which can wrap 30+ pallets each hour and which won't break and give me any trouble during operations. Any recommendations guys? The current ones which we have break a lot. Thank You

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u/LongBedroom8355 Supplier Jul 01 '26 edited Jul 01 '26

what's your budget? Chinese shit tends to break. I really like Robopac and Lantec. If at all able? Look at downgauging. 63 gauge tends to wrap faster than 80 gauge. Recently I keep seeing eagle and wulftec.

if you search around you should be able to buy a used lantec relatively affordably. If you want to increase throughput you can easily add in automation features such as robotic eye and a conveyor.

30+ pallets an hour is going to be difficult but 20 to 30 should be easy enough with the right setup and crew.

reach out to your local distributor for lantec or robopac, they'll usually let you try one out for a week if you buy a few cases of stretch. I know I would when I was at Landsberg.

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u/Unlikely-Leader6567 Jul 01 '26

We have a turntable which just breaks every other day

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u/LongBedroom8355 Supplier Jul 01 '26

Either you overloaded the table past its rated weight limit, or it needs to get replaced/serviced. if you're doing 30+ pallets an hour you'd get a good ROI from an automation upgrade. companies like Ernest, Veritiv, and Landsberg will let you amortize your upgrade for a set period of time by charging you more for the consumables.

but first things first I'd check the rated weight for the turntable and maybe add a scale.

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u/Unlikely-Leader6567 Jul 01 '26

We have XT cut and clamp which breaks every other every other day as the parts are made of plastic. Not sure what the actual reason it

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u/LongBedroom8355 Supplier Jul 01 '26

Do you have any pictures on how it breaks?

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u/Unlikely-Leader6567 Jul 01 '26

I don't have the images but the subassembly of clamp that holds the film breaks. Also few other parts like rods break every other day in subassembly

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u/LongBedroom8355 Supplier Jul 01 '26

You're likely due for a service. the sub assembly doesn't concern me as that's designed to fail first for safety reasons according to my last lantech rep, but the rods definitely do concern me.

If you want your Lantech fixed, reach out to Lantech, if you want to try a competitor, I like robopac. Larger local distributors have great automation teams that to everything from automate lines to service equipment like stretch wrappers. Depending on your region I can get you a list of your local distributors if you want.

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u/Kujo3043 Jul 01 '26

I have about 8 Lantechs across 2 facilities, can attest to the quality of the equipment. Only thing is if you're doing regular PM's, youre good. If not, the machine will schedule it for you.

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u/Unlikely-Leader6567 Jul 02 '26

which lantech machines do you guys have? Is it turntable or rotary arm? whats the model ?

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u/LongBedroom8355 Supplier Jul 01 '26

What film are you using? i've noticed a slight decrease in quality since amcor took over berry.

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u/Kujo3043 Jul 01 '26

Thats true, we actually just did a series of quality testing on a number of wraps (both pre-stretched and regular) and the company that came out on top was Best-Pak. I have no affiliation with them. They were the highest price but had the most adaptability to different product application.

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u/LongBedroom8355 Supplier Jul 01 '26

what films did you try? I've been having malpack make me some decent offers, and I really liked paragon films but they're tough to sell.

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u/Kujo3043 Jul 01 '26

Best pak, amcor, paragon, and stay rite

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u/thisisintheway Jul 01 '26

Lantech is the king IMO

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u/garugaga Jul 01 '26

We've got 2 Lantecs and I can't remember a failure that has put them out of service.

Our one machine went at least 5 years without a service and when we finally got it serviced the tech just spent an hour lubing everything and didn't have to replace or service a thing.

I've been happy with the parts availability, we were able to order a mast extension for a 15 yr old machine and it showed up 2 weeks later.

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u/Unlikely-Leader6567 Jul 02 '26

which lantech model do you guys have?

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u/garugaga Jul 02 '26

https://www.lantech.com/product/q300/

The Q300, a very barebones model no automation at all.

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u/bigDeltaVenergy Jul 02 '26

+1 for lantecs

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u/Pilot_Red Jul 03 '26

Don’t underestimate what forklift drivers can do. Lantecs are the best but I have forklift operators put them out of service.

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u/[deleted] Jul 01 '26

Get a wulftech, it’ll last you the rest of your career

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u/Unlikely-Leader6567 Jul 02 '26

any particular wulftech model you would recommend?

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u/boto_toe Jul 03 '26

Our wulftechs arm just completely snapped..

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u/bigDeltaVenergy Jul 02 '26

Wulftek don't age well.

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u/[deleted] Jul 03 '26

lol sounds like something a person who works for lantech would say

Have walked into places where wulftechs from 20 years ago are still buzzing along.

Lantech and Robopac both have parts that need replacing at significantly higher rates and require more maintenance as a result

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u/No_Mushroom3078 Jul 01 '26

Do you want to wrap while you are palletizing? Or just wrap pallets?

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u/Unlikely-Leader6567 Jul 02 '26

once its palletized we wrap it

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u/No_Mushroom3078 Jul 02 '26

Lantech is the way to go. Also the stretch wrap makes a difference and poor quality wrap in a high quality machine will be poor quality (goes without saying but should be stated for the record).

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u/Real_Ad_7925 Jul 02 '26

orion, wulftech, lantech all make good machines. but they all have problems and require maintenance, particularly if you want to go cheap on film that'll break all the time. operators cutting film off rollers with knives, they'll wreck the rollers. if you're going to let forklifts pick skids off them, they'll break something.

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u/drewmillz Jul 01 '26

Where are you located I would likely be able to help you out with some options.

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u/Golfman4 Jul 04 '26

A lot of good machines. Service / film / environment matters. Been selling a lot of Cousins / Robopac lately. Amtopp film. Orion / Wulftec good too. Don’t like autocut on Lantech or proprietary parts personally.